State v. Thompson

SANDSTROM, Justice.

We are asked to allow a defendant to withdraw his guilty plea because the trial judge did not follow the State’s nonbinding recommendation for sentencing.

Ronald Scott Thompson seeks to withdraw his plea of guilty to the charge of gross sexual imposition,1 a class B felony.2 Thompson entered his guilty plea based on the State’s agreement to recommend a sentence of no more than six years to be served concurrently with other sentences. The State made that recommendation. The judge imposed a greater sentence: a ten-year sentence to be served consecutively with other sentences.…